I was unhappy from the start of puberty. My sister was developing one way, and I another. This was the point when our fundamental differences became apparent, and it was quite distressing. I'd never talked to anyone about wanting to be a girl. I was terribly embarrassed. The only representation in the media was laughable images of men wearing dresses, which I couldn't relate to. I did want to look pretty like my sister, but it was more about interacting with society as a girl, being accepted as such.

[Vaticano] [Commentary] Pope deserves an apology -- and a pat on the backExcerpt: But here's the thing, he never mentioned homosexuals or transsexuals anywhere in his speech, which was an end-of-year address to the Roman curia. He acknowledged the need to protect the environment, including the rain forests, and then said that we need an "ecology" of human nature as well. The portion of the speech that has everyone aghast goes like this: "It is necessary to have something like an ecology of man, understood in the right sense. It is not outdated metaphysics when the Church speaks of the nature of the human being as man and woman, and asks that this natural order be respected."Les homosexuels dénoncent les attaques du pape contre la théorie du genreRatzinger el cínico